pseud cecil (40 Ergebnisse)

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Minor, scattered marginal foxing. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Previous owner's inscription to ffep.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 310 pages; Description: 310p. 19cm. Subjects: English fiction -- English novels -- 20th century. Romances -- Social fiction. Summary: Rich, handsome, leisured, sophisticated, Berry, Jonah and co are an unforgettable group of individuals who get mixed up in a series of extraordinary adventures and romance. Series: Berry books. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Dust jacket included. Boston: Little Brown, 1950. First Edition. Fine cloth, in worn/soiled dustwrapper. Bookplate on front paste-down. It is interesting to see what the creator of Horatio Hornblower could do with a more modern story. This is a tale of the life of a young inventor and soldier in the first World War and immediately after.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 286 pages; Physical description.: 286 p. 21 cm. Subject: Fiction in English -- Fictional Characters -- English. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Good copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked and blind-bordered cloth, edges very slightly toned. Some wear and tear as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Physical description; 4 p.l., 218 p. : col. front., 4 col. pl. ; 18 cm. Notes; Added t.-p., illus. Subjects; Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Roch Yves Gilbert de Motier marquis de (1757-1834). 3 Kg.

Hard covers. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Reprint of 1921 edition. Donor's inscription. Weight: 1 Language: English.

Hard covers. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Reprint of 1927 edition. Donor's inscription. Weight: 1 Language: English.

Hard covers. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Reprint of 1922 edition. No inscription. Weight: 1 Language: English.

Hard covers. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st edition. Owner's inscription. Weight: 1 Language: English.

8vo 192pp. Original cloth. A good ex-library copy. Upper panel and blurb from dustwrapper attached to prelims. First edition.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine cover sun-toned. Slight lean to spine. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dust-toned as with age. Light foxing to prelims. Remains quite well-preserved overall. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 308 pages; Description: 308p. 19cm. Subjects: English fiction - 20th century - Popular fiction - The berry books - Dornford Yates. Publisher's ads at end. 3 Kg.

Zustand: New.

, 224 pages First Edition , lacks front cover, spine and rear cover soiled and torn, light spots to some pages, in fair condition , original printed wraps 19 x 13 cm Paperback ISBN:

Smnall 8vo 191pp. Original boards in dustwrapper. Browning to prelims. A very good copy in bright dustwrapper. In the Collins 2/- series.

Small 8vo 192pp. Original boards in slightly worn dustwrapper. Browning to edges.Previous owner's name. A very good copy. In the Collins 2/- series.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.

Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. worn copy.

8vo 286pp. Original boards in very slightly chipped dustwrapper. Some foxing to edges. A very good copy. First US edition.

Zustand: Very Good. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1938. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's brown cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in black; [8],294pp. Light shelf wear to cloth margins, spine slightly cocked, faint ring stains to upper cover, latter half of textblock toned (evidently the printer used two batches of stock of varying quality), else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. A locked room murder, the room in this case the victim's niece's bathroom. Forms part of the author's popular series of novels featuring the armchair detective Dr. Lancelot Priestley.

First edition, 8vo, 253, (1) pp. Bookseller's small ink stamp and a crossed out name and address to front endpapers. Cloth, d.w. with some loss to the spine ends and foxing to the lower wrapper.

Hard covers. Zustand: Good. Contains the following titles: And five were foolish, An eye for a tooth, Anthony Lyveden, As Berry and I were saying, Blind corner, Blood royal, Cost price, Fire below, Jonah and Co., Maiden stakes, Period stuff, Perishable goods, Red in the morning, Safe custody, She fell among thieves, Shoal water, Storm music. The brother of Daphne, The house that Berry built, The stolen march, Valerie French. Most are in green cloth, some noticeably sunned along the spine, the exceptions being in black, blue and tan cloth. They generally have just the signature of the former owner; a few have longer donors' inscriptions. Most are Ward Lock's later reprints, but there are one or two 'firsts'. A reasonable cross-section of his oeuvre, omitting several of his later works. Saki was his cousin. Weight: 1 Language: English Mostly no jackets. "Leading characters" on front flap of jacket of "The house that Berry built".

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. G. Goursat (illustrator). 1st Edition. According to correspondence between Kahane and his literary agent J.R. Pinker [Berg collection, NYPL], Kahane had submitted the manuscript of "Suzy Falls Off" by the end of 1926. By the autumn of that year proofs had been submitted to John Long and it was published in London in 1928. This is the first American edition published the following year. Soiling rubbing to the edges, a small crack to hinge, in a facsimile dust-jacket. 5½" - 7¾". book.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. [Modern Literature] VINTAGE PENGUIN EDITION, first Penguin Edition. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.245; [1]; [10], publisher's advertisements. Publisher's orange and white softcovers, matching dust-jacket with printed price of 6d. to front flap. Ex-libris stamp front paste-down, toning to edges of textblock and internally, toning to covers and jacket, wear to jacket extremities and backstrip tears repaired with archival tape. Very good. 'The Gun' is the story of an arduous journey undertaken by Spanish partisans to transport a massive cannon across inhospitable terrain so as to use it to break the siege of Salas. The novel was first published in 1933, and by Penguin in 1939.

256pp. 8vo. Original cloth in pictorial dustwrapper, a near fine copy. First edition, very scarce.

19x13. 254p. PEDIDO MINIMO, 6.00 EUROS. ENVIO GRATUITO HASTA 1 KILO A LA PENINSULA SIN NUMERO DE SEGUIMIENTO. PARA OTRAS FORMAS DE ENVIO, LEA CONDICIONES. (PAYPAL +1,80 HASTA 50, RESTO +5.95%). EN ALMACEN. LITERATURA INGLATERRA LIBRO EN INGLÉS Enc. Cart. ed. sobrecubierta. Primera Edición.

Softcover. Zustand: Very good. G. Goursat (illustrator). First edition. First edition August 1934. 'Cecil Barr' was the sometime pseudonym of Jack Kahane, proprietor of the Obelisk Press, whose favorite watering hole in Paris was the bar of the Cecil Hotel. This tale recounts the marital, and extra marital, adventures of Tommy Trans-Wood and his 'charming' wife. This is a very good copy in wrappers illustrated by by G. Goursat. A little spotting on the wraps, but still a remarkably fresh, fine copy. The rear flap of the wrapper advertises the publisher's list including the upcoming *Tropic of Cancer*. A beautiful copy. 5½" - 7¼". book.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's orange cloth, titles to spine in black, mild partial browning to the endpapers, trace of erasure to front free endpaper, with the dust-jacket, some mild ghosting to the spine through the jacket but an exceptional copy in the little tanned and very slightly rubbed dust-jacket. The poet laureate, Cecil Day Lewis wrote a number of detective works under the name Nicholas Blake, of which this title is by far the best regarded. Copies of this UK printing in this condition with the jacket are extremely uncommon.

Zustand: Very Good. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1928. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's pictorial green cloth; [10],308pp. Corners and spine ends bumped and lightly scuffed, textblock uniformly toned, else a Very Good and sound copy, albeit lacking the rare dust jacket. Locked room (well, hotel) detective novel featuring five yachtsmen, investigator Dr. Priestley, and the body of Dr. Grinling.

Zustand: Very Good -. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1957. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's red boards, black spine titling; 255pp. Boards rubbed and rather bumped along margins with brief exposure at corners and spine ends, occasional soiling to binding and textblock, textblock additionally rather toned due to inferior paper quality, spine a bit creased and cocked; a Good to Very Good copy, albeit lacking uncommon jacket. One of seventy-two detective novels pseudonymously written by Cecil Rhodes featuring the investigative prowess of Dr. Priestley.

8°. Halblederband d. Zeit. Zustand: Gut. Erste Ausgabe. - Einband stellenweise berieben. Kapitale stärker beschabt, sowie die Oberkante etwas bestossen. Wenige Blätter leicht gebräunt / fleckig. Kopfschnitt rauh. - Exemplar aus der Sammlung Bibliotheca Tiliana (Jagdbibliothek Kurt Lindner). - Schwerdt II, 264. Mit gestoch. Frontispiz und 1 Stahlstichtafel. XX, 435 S. Englisch 450g.